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(1908-2005) Scholar, author. William N. Fenton was born in New Rochelle, New York, and died in Cooperstown, New York. He was an expert on the Iroquois culture.

Full Name

William N. Fenton

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline


1908

BIRTH

William Nelson Fenton was born in New Rochelle, New York, on December 15, 1908.

1941

LITWORK

Tonawanda Longhouse Ceremonies: Ninety Years After Lewis Henry Morgan
Smithsonian Institution

Nonfiction.

1942

LITWORK

Contacts Between Iroquois Herbalism And Colonial Medicine


Nonfiction.

1950

LITWORK

The Roll Call of the Iroquois Chiefs: A Study of a Mnemonic Cane from the Six Nations Reserve
Ams Pr Inc
0404155367 / 978-0404155360
Nonfiction.

1953

LITWORK

The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance
United States Government Printing Office

Nonfiction.

1956

OTHER

Mr. Fenton became director of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York, in 1956.

1968

OTHER

Mr. Fenton taught at the State University of New York at Albany from 1968 until his retirement in 1979.

1984

LITWORK

Masked Medicine Societies Of The Iroquois
Annual report of the Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.

Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

The False Faces of the Iroquois
University of Oklahoma Pres
0806120398 / 978-0806120393
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois
University of Oklahoma Press
0806130032 / 978-0806130033
Nonfiction.

2002

LITWORK

The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas
University of Oklahoma Press
080613447X / 978-0806134475
Nonfiction.

2005

DEATH

William N. Fenton died in Cooperstown, New York, on June 17, 2005.

2007

LITWORK

Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers
University of Nebraska Press
0803220219 / 978-0803220218
Nonfiction.

2009

LITWORK

William Fenton: Selected Writings
University of Nebraska Press
0803216076 / 978-0803216075
Nonfiction.

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